Harriet to the Future

Editing the music video first started with putting all of the fight scene together, this was to make it easier when needing to put cuts and other shots in-between as we wanted to keep the fight in chronological order to fit the story line from the start of the fight all the way to the end (which is also the very end of the music video). This was done the following week as we filmed on a Friday and we weren't able to edit over the weekend. It was also easier to start with the fight scene as we still had more to film and needed to understand the time that the fight sequence would take up in the video.  From the beginning of the project we all decided that the music video should be in black and white, as the music video is tonally dark and having the video in black and white would add to the intense atmosphere. We had also worked around lighting a lot during filming and having the music video in black and white heightened the exposure of light onscreen and also ...

Wednesday 22nd January 2020 - Shoot Day 1 Crew: Co-Directors - Harriet Parvin (me) and Tom Swales D.O.P - Amiliyah Ashraf Camera Operator - Sam Liddell Cast: Fighter (main character) - Tom Swales After our unfortunate day before, this was now our first real shoot day. Before we headed over to Tom's house, where we were filming the training scenes, we first grabbed some equipment from the studio. Taking a camera, microphone, fig rig, and an LED camera light. We also made sure we had all of our pre-production work with us, to look back at notes of particular shots we were going to get that day. We also made sure that we all had brought our SD cards, as we needed a main SD card and then a backup just in case the other one stopped working.  We then headed over to Tom's house and as soon as we got there we started to set everything up. We were filming in Tom's garage, as he had a punching bag in there, and we were able to move a few things around and taken d...

Tuesday 7th January 2020 This was our first and only day of being introduced to the production of music videos before starting on our big project. As we all got into college that morning we were put into small groups by our tutor Danniella and given the task of recreating an artist's music video.  I was put into a group with Sam Liddell and Joe Mitchell (Joe hadn't arrived just yet so me and Sam started the work together). We were given a brief and lyrics to a song and also asked to watch the original music video to this song. The song was Jessie J's  "Who's Laughing Now ". We were first asked to read through the brief and understand what J's requests for the video were. J made it clear that she wanted it to link back to the lyrics of her song, which discuss about her adolescence and when she was bullied at school. She mainly wanted her video to show a younger version of her to rise above those who hurt her and didn't stop her from makin...